EWING, New Jersey, Feb. 17 (TNSRes) -- The College of New Jersey issued the following news: TCNJ Assistant Professor of Biology Melkamu Woldemariam, a plant biologist who specializes in molecular and chemical ecology, has been awarded a $1 million joint grant from the National Science Foundation and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to support his research program and to engage undergraduate research collaborators in his work. Each year, a sizable fraction of global agricultu more PR

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Feb. 20 (TNSJou) -- Rutgers University Camden campus issued the following news: Choosing a hot sandwich instead of a cold one may be better for your waistline, according to a study by a Rutgers University Camden scholar. The research suggests that people consuming the same food or beverage cold find their meal to be less satisfying, so they purchase additional items, such as potato chips and cookies, to compensate for their appetites. "It's not exactly clear where these ex more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (TNSRep) -- District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2021: Attorney General Karl A. Racine today led a group of 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief defending a New Jersey policy that limits cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. Two New Jersey counties that want to continue collaborating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sued the state to try to bloc more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: It's official: the GOP's ongoing civil war has come home to roost in New Jersey. Wednesday, GOP gubernatorial candidate Hirsh Singh announced that he will sue Somerset County Republican Committee Chairman Howes over the Committee's endorsement of rival GOP contender Jack Ciattarelli. Singh labeled the committee's process as "an utter embarrassment" and called for Chairman Howes to resign from his post saying more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news on Feb. 16, 2021: Yesterday, major Trump supporter and Pastor Phillip Rizzo entered the New Jersey governor's race, solidifying that the already-crowded primary will be a long, messy fight over who is the most conservative. In his announcement, Rizzo declared himself a "strong supporter of President Trump" and questioned frontrunner Jack Ciattarelli's commitment to the Trump agenda, even though Ciattarelli has more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Georgetown University's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection issued the following news release: Yesterday, 73 current and former elected prosecutors and law enforcement leaders, and former Attorneys General and Department of Justice officials, filed an amicus brief in the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals in support of New Jersey's landmark Immigrant Trust Directive - a statewide policy that aims to fortify trust between immigrant communities an more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TNSJou) -- John Wiley and Sons issued the following news release: African Americans have higher rates of prostate cancer and are more likely to die from the disease than other groups in the United States, likely due to socioeconomic factors, healthcare access problems, and tumor biology. A new review published in Cancer Reports focuses on the biological differences in the development of prostate cancer across ethnicities. The authors note that these differences co more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TNSJou) -- John Wiley and Sons issued the following news release: A new study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research has identified various factors that may indicate whether a person faces a higher likelihood of experiencing a bone fracture over the next two decades. The study included 30,446 middle-aged women and men who were followed from the early/mid 1990s to 2016. A total of 8,240 participants (27%) had at least one fracture during a median fol more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TNSJou) -- John Wiley and Sons issued the following news release: A new study published in Economic Inquiry is the first to assess the willingness of consumers to adopt advisory services in the banking sector that are based on artificial intelligence (AI). Investigators examined whether the likelihood that consumers adopt AI in banking services depends on tastes for human interaction across different cultures. The study focused on robo-advisory services, which are more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TNSJou) -- John Wiley and Sons issued the following news release: A study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry has found long-term impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico on bottlenose dolphins' immune function. Bottlenose dolphins from an area that received prolonged and heavy oiling were temporarily captured, sampled, and released as part of health assessment programs. The animals were compared with dolphins  more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TNSJou) -- John Wiley and Sons issued the following news release: Among patients with cancer, having additional physical comorbidities was linked with a higher risk of experiencing psychological distress. The finding comes from a Psycho-Oncology analysis of 2017 data from the National Health Survey of Spain. The analysis included 484 patients who reported a cancer diagnosis and 484 matched controls without a history of cancer. Compared with controls, patients with more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TNSJou) -- John Wiley and Sons issued the following news release: In an analysis of information on 448 patients with heart failure who were discharged from a hospital in Sweden, 20.3% of patients were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, and 60.9% were readmitted within 1 year. The ESC Heart Failure analysis found that most of the patients who needed to be rehospitalized were readmitted for heart failure. Patients who were readmitted were more likely to have more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TNSJou) -- John Wiley and Sons issued the following news release: An analysis published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society indicates that while adults aged 75 years and older do not benefit from taking aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease, many do so on a regular basis. Also, although statins are known to help prevent heart problems in older adults who have experienced a cardiovascular event, many of these individuals do not take a statin. The  more PR

WAYNE, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TNSRep) -- William Paterson University issued the following news: As more states legalize recreational marijuana, a new study shows a resulting decline in the rate of workers' compensation claims and benefit amounts among older employees, according to Rahi Abouk, health economics professor and director of the Cannabis Research Institute at William Paterson University, in recent study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) with three other author more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 20 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel recently joined a group of 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief defending a New Jersey policy that governs the interactions between state and local law enforcement officials and federal immigration authorities and is designed to ensure that state and local authorities are able to protect their immigration and limited English proficiency communiti more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 17 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Governor Phil Murphy announced an investment of more than $100 million in clean, equitable transportation projects that will improve air quality and reduce the effects of climate change while moving New Jersey towards 100 percent clean energy by 2050. Leveraging proceeds from New Jersey's participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the Volkswagen Mitigation Trust Funds, this more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 18 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Governor Phil Murphy, Congressman Donald Norcross, New Jersey Department of Transportation Commissioner and NJ TRANSIT Board Chair Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, NJ TRANSIT President & CEO Kevin Corbett, Mayor Frank Moran, and local and county officials today celebrated the first major step of a $250 million redevelopment of the Walter Rand Transportation Center, the largest transportation hub in Camd more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 18 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2021: Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 222. The Order extends the Public Health Emergency that was declared on March 9, 2020 through Executive Order No. 103, which was previously extended in 2020 on April 7, May 6, June 4, July 2, August 1, August 27, September 25, October 24, November 22, and December 21, and again in 2021 on January 19. Under the Emergency Health  more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 20 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Governor Phil Murphy and New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) Acting Commissioner Dr. Angelica Allen-McMillan today announced "The Road Forward," a series of coordinated policy initiatives that dramatically expand the Administration's efforts to identify and address the academic and mental health impacts of COVID-19 on New Jersey students and educators. As part of this coordinated initiative, more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 18 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following transcript: * * * Governor Phil Murphy: Good afternoon, everyone. Joining me today is the woman on my right who needs no introduction, the Commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli. To her right, the state's former epidemiologist and current COVID-19 Response Medical Advisor, Dr. Eddy Bresnitz. Eddy's with us most Wednesdays these days; great to have you both, as always. The guy to my left who more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 20 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following transcript: Governor Phil Murphy: Good afternoon, everybody, sorry to be a few minutes behind. I'm joined today by the woman to my right who needs no introduction, the Commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli. To her right, another familiar face, the State's Epidemiologist, Dr. Christina Tan, great to have you both here. To my left, a real treat to welcome back, Acting Commissioner of the Depa more PR

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Feb. 16 -- New Jersey American Water issued the following news release: New Jersey American Water will replace approximately 4,400 feet of aging water main in Lakewood starting this week. The company will upgrade the aging 6-inch water lines with new, 8-inch ductile iron main along Seventh Street from Madison Avenue to Lexington Avenue and the entire length of South Park Avenue and Autumn Road. The project also includes replacing five fire hydrants and 63 utility-owned servi more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Feb. 15 -- The Princeton Environmental Institute issued the following news: The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) is seeking innovative research and teaching proposals from Princeton University faculty and senior research staff for the Biodiversity Challenge, the latest research and teaching cooperative established under the HMEI Grand Challenges program. The goal is to encourage research, teaching and mentorship focused on enhancing our understanding of biodive more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Feb. 18 (TNSJou) -- The Princeton Environmental Institute issued the following news: One early feature of reporting on the coronavirus pandemic was the perception that sub-Saharan Africa was largely being spared the skyrocketing infection and death rates that were disrupting nations around the world. While still seemingly mild, the true toll of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, on the countries of sub-Saharan Africa may be obscured by a tremendous variability in risk fa more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TNSJou) -- Princeton University issued the following news release: In research that may eventually help crops survive drought, scientists at Princeton University have uncovered a key reason that mixing material called hydrogels with soil has sometimes proven disappointing for farmers. Hydrogel beads, tiny plastic blobs that can absorb a thousand times their weight in water, seem ideally suited to serve as tiny underground reservoirs of water. In theory, as the s more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Feb. 17 (TNSJou) -- Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs issued the following news release: In coming decades as coastal communities around the world are expected to encounter sea-level rise, the general expectation has been that people's migration toward the coast will slow or reverse in many places. However, new research co-authored by Princeton University shows that migration to the coast could actually accelerate in some places despite se more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Feb. 17 (TNSJou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: Human health and ecosystems could be affected by microbes including cyanobacteria and algae that hitch rides in clouds and enter soil, lakes, oceans and other environments when it rains, according to a Rutgers co-authored study. "Some of the organisms we detected in clouds and rain are known to have possible impacts on human health and could also affect microbial populations at rainfall locations," sai more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Feb. 17 (TNSRes) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: Winter storms that have brought record-breaking cold and power outages to many parts of the United States also have heightened the risk of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Every year, at least 430 people die in the United States and 50,000 people visit emergency rooms because of accidental CO poisoning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Multiple recent storms, with high snow  more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TSJou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: A new Rutgers study found extremely low levels of the virus that causes COVID-19 on surfaces where oncology and hematology inpatients and outpatients are treated providing more assurance that those receiving cancer care are safe when receiving treatment. The study published on Feb. 18 in Cancer revealed extremely low detection of SARS-CoV-2 on environmental surfaces across multiple inpatient and outpati more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TNSJou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: Scientists have little understanding of the role fishes play in the global carbon cycle linked to climate change, but a Rutgers-led study found that carbon in feces, respiration and other excretions from fishes - roughly 1.65 billion tons annually - make up about 16 percent of the total carbon that sinks below the ocean's upper layers. Better data on this key part of the Earth's biological pump will he more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Feb. 17 (TNSJou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: Scientists have resolved a key climate change mystery, showing that the annual global temperature today is the warmest of the past 10,000 years - contrary to recent research, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Nature. The long-standing mystery is called the "Holocene temperature conundrum," with some skeptics contending that climate model predictions of future warming must be wrong. The s more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Feb. 19 (TNSJou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: Law enforcement and those in the military, rather than doctors and celebrities, are the most preferred messengers on firearm safety, a Rutgers study found. The findings, published in the journal Preventive Medicine, can help communicate the importance of safe firearm storage and reduce the rate of suicides, Rutgers researchers say. "We know that safe firearm storage is a key component to suicide preve more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 18 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following statement: * * * Getting the Gateway Program done is of critical importance to our economic future and to the lives of the thousands of commuters who deserve safe and modern infrastructure. For four long years, President Trump let the Hudson Tunnel Project languish and twist in the political wind. Now, under President Biden, we can make up for lost time and get this vital program - and the thousands of jobs  more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 18 (TNSPer) -- Thomas Edison State University issued the following news release: John P. Thurber, vice president for Public Affairs and executive vice president for the Thomas Edison State University Foundation, has announced his intention to retire this fall. He has served in both roles since January 1996. Prior to his appointment as vice president for Public Affairs, Thurber became the founding executive director of The John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy and more PR

RICHMOND, Virginia, Feb. 18 -- Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2021: Attorney General Mark R. Herring has joined a group of 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief defending a New Jersey policy that limits cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. Two New Jersey counties that want to continue collaborating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sued the state to try to block a 2018 d more PR

WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania, Feb. 16 (TNSPer) -- Wilkes University issued the following news: Landon Bordner, a Wilkes University PharmD/MBA student from Williamstown, Pennsylvania, was elected Region 2 Delegate for the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) in January 2021. Region 2 of the APhA-ASP covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C. As the delegate, Bordner will work to promote policy and advocac more PR